1 N ow the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying,

And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

2 “ Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee.

3 S o Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk.

And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

4 T hen Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!

5 T hen the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

And the men of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

6 W hen the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

7 H e issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water.

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water;

8 B ut both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands.

and let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; and let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

9 W ho knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

Who knoweth but that God will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

10 W hen God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do it.

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did not.